Recs if you like The Phantom of the Opera...
“tiny bookshop” books 📚
books featured in the cozy video game “tiny bookshop”
Books Gone Broadway
Stories that traded chapters for showtunes! From literary classics to contemporary novels these books found a second life under the Broadway lights! Please let me know any that I've missed!! (Note on curation: I've been cross checking titles with Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) which is Broadway's official archive)
French Literature Final Boss
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Based on my original post on having quests for French Literature, I made starter packs (check my profile 👀) but I'm thinking we just need a big dump! Thanks to everyone participating!
This list covers books across time by French authors (as in people that have the nationality no matter their origins) and can hopefully incentivize crossovers with the Francophonie mon amour list!
Check comments to see how I diversified the list!
HRCYED 3.0 x Pagebound Quests (Titles Edition)
If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that go past the July start date and match at least one of these title prompts: Periodic Table, Familial Terms, Rainbow of Words (also Joseph's coat), Numerical Titles, Titular Counting 5+, Pun in the Title, and First & Last Name in the Title. Recommendations welcome!
100 Gothic Classics
A list of 100 gothic classics which covers over 250 years of literature, from the high-drama castles of the 1700s to the psychological "New Gothic" of today.
Free? In This Economy?
Times are tough… Here is a list of books that I was able to find as free audiobooks available on YouTube or Spotify!
Gothic and Witchy Books ⁺‧₊˚ ཐི⋆♱⋆ཋྀ ˚₊‧⁺🩸⊹ ࣪✧₊⁺
A mix of classics & modern literature, that have to do with the witchy, gothic and horror genres ✨
men don't yearn like they used to
classic books where the mmc's are YEARNING, just as they should be (i'll be adding more as i read more classics)
Reading List: The Musical!
As a massive bookworm and theatre nerd, this list was inevitable.
French Classic Literature
a non-exhaustive collection of works
French Classics ⁺‧₊˚ ☕️⋆°｡⋆🥐 ˚₊‧⁺
This list comprises numerous French classics, from romantic epics, to realist critiques of society, to philosophical fiction, to scandalous stories, poetry, & more! I’ll be updating it sporadically.
Gothic Classics
A list for the cold months.
French Modern Classics Starter Pack I
Based on my original post on having quests for French Literature, here is the third list of a series to remediate it :) Thanks to everyone that participated in the discussion and helped me put these together!
This list only covers books published in the 20th century. See comments for more info on the methodology I used!
See also:
- French Classics Starter Pack I
- French Classics Starter Pack II
- Francophonie mon amour
- French Literature Final Boss
all the page’s a stage
fiction where the drama is baked in, as the plot or setting involves the theatre.
Banging musicals (but on paper)
A list of books that have been adapted into musicals. + more (all musical related)
Essential Francophone Lit: Classics & Contemporary
A collection of acclaimed classic and contemporary Francophone literature. I chose to classify as Francophone rather than French in order to include authors who wrote in French but were/are not of French nationality, especially authors from colonised countries. Non-exhaustive as I'm not an expert I am keeping this list to one book per author but suggestions very welcome! :)
From Page to Stage
Books that have been adapted into or inspired musicals
What's the story, Wishbone?
Every book depicted on PBS's Wishbone (1995–1997)
Hold on to your candelabras!
Keeping those narrators unreliable and those mansions decaying. Embrace the madness and dark appetites of Gothic Literature.
Classics to read on a windy afternoon
Something compelling to make you think
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